Karen Sweet is a Senior Marketing professional in the high-tech industry. She has spent most of her 20-year career holding marketing leadership positions at some of Silicon Valley’s most recognizable brands. She has been consistently lauded for building and leading winning program teams. Karen currently manages marketing programs for one of the worlds largest industrial manufacturing companies. In addition to working full-time, Karen is the mother of two grade-school children and is very active in her community. She has held several board-level positions in her local Elementary School Academic Boosters organization and is an active team-mom and sideline sports enthusiast.

Michael Brabant is an Integral Awakening coach, evolutionary consultant, and emerging teacher of relational spiritual practice and collective awakening. He is interested in how to synthesize the various streams of some of the world's most potent healing and transformational technologies and translate them to be offered to the most amount of people for the most amount of local and global benefit. He is finishing his PhD in Psychology and Interdisciplinary Studies at Saybrook University. His dissertation is studying the efficacy of an embodied leadership curriculum he is co-creating and co-teaching at Sonoma State University for undergraduate students. He is continually studying and practicing new ways that human beings can come together and co-create world-impacting initiatives, awaken as individuals and collectives, and engage in more transparent, loving, and synergistic ways. You can learn more about Michael and his work by visiting integralawakening.com

TRACE LEVINSON has traveled to over 20 countries in the past few years, and recently lived abroad for over 6 months in Santiago, Chile just this past semester. This young 20-year-old has experienced life at its best and its worst traveling through hard work, loss, and the pressures that being an over-achiever brings. Trace will weave together his experience with directed guidance for what it takes for new graduates and anyone between the ages of 20-40 years old, to find a life founded in joy. Upon his return from these last 6 months abroad, he decided to boldly disengage from his previous movement toward a career in the financial industry and instead pursue a writing career in the hopes of helping others find clarity. He is currently working on the completion of his first book, which will center upon guidance toward the achievement of happiness and fulfillment.

Custom Solutions Inc., led by its CEO Michael Levin, provides high impact consulting services in the areas of Sales, Presentation Skills and Leadership Development. He works with a wide variety of clients from entrepreneurs to Fortune 500 companies. He has helped companies dramatically improve their results through his proven, personally developed sales techniques and leadership methodologies. Michael has launched both product and service businesses and developed them into multi-million dollar entities. He has developed and patented products that have been sold in over 300,000 retail outlets, including every major drug and mass chain, along with Home Shopping Network and QVC. Michael has appeared on numerous radio and TV shows around the country and been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine. He lives in Danville, CA.

ALAN FOX is the president of ACF Property Management, Inc, and author of PEOPLE TOOLS FOR BUSINESS: 50 Strategies for Building Success, Creating Wealth, and Finding Happiness (September 30, 2014; SelectBooks Inc.). He is also the author ofThe New York Times bestseller PEOPLE TOOLS. He has university degrees in accounting, law, education, and professional writing. He was employed as a Tax Supervisor for a national CPA firm, established his own law firm, then founded a commercial real estate company in 1968 that now owns over one billion dollars in real estate. Fox is the founder, editor, and publisher of Rattle, one of the most respected literary magazines in the United States, and he sits on the board of directors of several non-profit foundations.

Mika Douglas is retired and is living in Renaca, Chile, a small beach community along the central Chilean coast, 180 kilometers from Santiago. Mika left the USA 7 years ago and has lived abroad with her husband, on the beaches in Southern Thailand and Bangkok. “Our objective was to live more simply and leave behind the everyday complexities inherent with living in North America. Mission accomplished.” Now she is involved in ChileRetirement.com, a startup business that helps people retire to Chile by providing them assistance with immigration, healthcare, housing, language, and getting settled into a new culture. As we have experienced, having someone who can help with the myriad of questions and issues that arise with relocation, makes a huge difference in achieving a new “quality of life”. Formerly, Mika spent over thirty years working for “Corporate America” in Strategic Planning, Marketing and the Sales of products and services throughout Scandinavia, Europe and the Pacific Rim.

Bobby Anderson has had a long and successful career in working with Government and the Private Sector. He has primarily been a business consultant and business owner where he managed projects that supported rights of workers in California. His emphasis has always been working with health and human services organizations. His sensitivities run contrary to most business owners that put profit before serving the community. His philosophy of life is very counter intuitive in that he believes serving others will ultimately provide him with the happiness we all so aspire to.

Louie Bernstein is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area specializing in Couples and Relationship Counseling. Using an integrative and holistic approach, he draws from the best of the relationship and psychological philosophies, including: Object-Relations theory, Harville Hendrix’ Imago Therapy and Dr. John Gottman’s Couples research in assisting individuals and couples in creating healthy, supportive and fulfilling relationships. Personally inspired by the miracle and perfection of nature’s hand in guiding the growth of a living system such as an abundant fruit tree, Louie has developed a unique approach to show couples how to “grow their own great relationship” by aligning with and embracing those same growing principles that Nature uses in growing that great fruit tree from tiny seed to full fruition. By learning how to keep our intimate relationship well nourished with “sunshine, water, nutrients and care”, we can grow that great relationship in which we feel completely Alive, Loved, and Fulfilled.